Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms

I don't even know my own phone number.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.